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Seychelles gets sinking feeling as world haggles over warming FEATURE 12/18/2009

Thursday, December 17, 2009


Seychelles gets sinking feeling as world haggles over warming



FEATURE


12/18/2009

DENIS ISLAND — Camille Hoareau stands on Denis Island’s beach of creamy-white sand, exactly where trees used to grow a few years ago and where the fish will soon swim if global warming surges on.

“See those? They all went down recently,” he says, pointing to the upturned roots of casuarina trees felled by the ever-advancing beach.

Hoareau believes this small privately-owned coralline island .... MORE


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